yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Also, i am mirror'ing the htc sense zip on filefactory... will post link as soon as it's done.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] solidorange:
how long should i be waiting for the "Flashing hbooteng.nb0" process in step 2 to take place? i have been waiting at least 5 minutes at this point. :confused:
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WormDoes:
took me 10-15. keep waiting, let it do it's thang
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
Try that again, close the app then perform step 2 again. Did you watch your phone flash?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] solidorange:
thanks! of course it finished up as soon as i hit submit on my previous reply. :o
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Here is a mirror for the HTC sync program.

* setup_3.0.5511.exe

http://www.filefactory.com/file/ca4e6e5/n/setup_3.0.5511.exe

Haven't used Filefactory much so i don't know what download speeds are, but should be faster than HTC... dang they are slow.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] denpad2010:
please can soebody tell me how can i do to the program found my adb device?? i know thats the problem...please anyone at leat say dont know or dont care???
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Where do you live, how long will you be up and stuff. Download a program called teamviewer from teamviewer.com i can remote into your computer and see how you have it set up.... if you want to of course.

That's the program we use at my company to fix customers computers remotely.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
Thats what we use as well. Make sure you have the htc sync program installed. As well as the android SDK which inturn also requires the java JDK.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] anothamexican:
after downloading the no adb 800mb thunderbolt file I opened it in winrar and dragged all files into a folder in my desktop. I double click on rooter and a box opens up, I follow the first set of instructions to plug in my phone. I wait a couple of seconds then i click on "step 1", I see something about daemon but then it switches to instructions to choose bootloader option. Meanwhile nothing is happening on my thunderbolt. what am I doing wrong?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NeutronBomb:
Yes the flash from step one was successful, everything worked as it should (on the 4th try it finally went into the bootloader)

I did that.. I even rebooted the phone and the pc. Debug is enabled and I'm in charge only mode. I fire up step 2 on the rooted, it gives me the message about doing those things... and says I have 20 seconds. Then it says "reading devices" and just hangs there...nothing happens.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jawonder:
Thanks man got that to work , so just extract the Thunder file ?.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ckochinsky125:
Yes i did and this is what I get windows cannot find blah blah blah. Please make sure you typed the name correctly and try again?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bamaredwingsfan:
I finally managed to get the rooter to see my device, now it still don't give me the option to upgrade
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
For those of you who are having trouble getting the exe to see your device in step 1. Try installing PDANet (on your windows PC). It worked perfectly for me when HTC Sync would not.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
You may need to try the other version. There is one with adb and one without. Also try both the executables that are at the bottom of the OP in .zip files as attachments.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
No you have to extract all those files, unless by thunder file you mean a folder, but i think that it was just a bunch of files, no main folder.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bamaredwingsfan:
Ok i managed to get into bootloader, but i don't see anything asking me to upgrade. I dont even know if the files are even getting pushed to the phone.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NeutronBomb:
UGghh HALP!!! lol No seriously I'm stuck at step 2.

It just says Reading devices... I've restarted the program several times, restarted my pc and my phone.. Step 1 completed successfully but step 2 won't progress.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
run step 1 again, wait about 10 miuntes or so, and if needed you may need to run it a thrd time. When the step is complete it will reboot your phone.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bamaredwingsfan:
Does anyone have an idea why i cant get the files to push? I can get the phone to recognize, but that is as far as i can go.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
I may be wrong, i didnt do the root this way and maybe someone call tell me if i AM wrong, but i am pretty sure the phone needs to be in ' HTC SYNC ' for your computer to connect via 'adb' to your phone.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ckochinsky125:
same thing here
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jmsdvs:
I did something similar and just kept clicking step 3 and have superuser and rom manager super user installed. Rebooted and now rooted! Thanks dbz!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jawonder:
I extracted and found the rooter file but when i plug my phone it seems not to recognized it seems i need the adb drivers have you got a link for that ? . Thanks
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
To re clarify after the phone is 'detected' and when it starts pushing files this takes a looooooooooooong time. It's having to push a 400 meg file plus a few others into the phone, then run some code, then reboot into the bootloader. Be patient, at least wait 10 to 15 minutes.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bamaredwingsfan:
I have windows task manager running on my desktop, an when i click the 1st option, it tries to run adb twice, as in to versions of adb at the sametime. The onlyway my phone will go into fastboot, is when i kill one of the ADB's. Am i just not letting the 1st option run long enough or what?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jdposhkus:
Finally got this to work with the help of a friend who is waaaay smarter than me.

:)

Thanks for your efforts.

Happy to have root!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NeutronBomb:
Ok good news... I used the exe from the adb needed method and it worked... now I'm waiting on hbooteng to flash.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jburnette87:
@neutronbomb how long does this part take? thats where im at. been there for 5 mins
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
that part took 5-10 minutes, just wait it will finish
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jburnette87:
reboot and do step 3 after it flashes?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jawonder:
when this is happening do you see any action or anything happening on the phone ?.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] palomosan:
I'm jumping in tomorrow, too much bloatware on this phone.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NeutronBomb:
Working on step 3 now.. done it twice, the apk's aren't actually getting pushed.

Edit: rebooting 3 times, misread that, thought I was supposed to do it after I flashed the recovery.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Mustang02:
Little clunky on the process but I was able to get it done. Thanks. Now to remove this bloat.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] uthinkisay:
about to do step 3, once done can we just use root explorer and delete as we see fit?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NeutronBomb:
Umm yeah... step 3 not working. It goes through the motions like it's working but nothing is getting pushed.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jburnette87:
same. any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] uthinkisay:
I seem to be having the same issue we could take the apk's from the rooter pack and install them manually if someone would tell us the correct permissions for SU
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jburnette87:
houston we have root!!!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
If step 3 is not working, fire up a command window in your Android SDK folder (wherever you have adb.exe), and follow these instructions. This is the same thing that step 3 does!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] denpad2010:
finally rooted thanks everybody for hard work!!!!!

for the people stuck on step 1 with device not found well wht i did was install htc sync and thats it,then i had issue with step 3 well i just reclic step 3before reboot.....

backing up now and well good nite is midnight here...........
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WhotahnHTC:
I really appreciate the work and assistance that has gone into this program & thread. I have read it all a few times but as the thread is a bit choppy I am starting to question a few things. If some someone would care to post or even pm me to keep thread organized.

I have a brand new never turned on TBolt and am ready to root. I have the file extracted to a folder on my desktop. I have HTC sync installed. Where should I go from here? Since I have not even fired this device up I want to be clear. I have adb set up from my Inc although it seldom recognized it. Sorry to ask questions that are prob asked I just need to be clear on initial set up. Then I believe I can handle it.......hope that is.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] onelegofthestool:
thank you so much, after about an hour of playing around and re-doing a few of the steps it worked out amazingly! the few glitches I saw are all mentioned in your OP. Once again thanks so much for making this, and thank you JCase and crew for rooting this phone so quickly!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] uthinkisay:
how did you get step 3 to take?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
Fire up the phone, connect to PC in charge mode. Once its connected switch it to HTC Sync Mode (from on the phone).

Open up rooter.exe and click step 1. It should find your phone and begin installation. If it doesnt hang while installing, it cannot find your phone. If that happens, install HTC Sync and try to get the ADB drivers for the Thunderbolt.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WhotahnHTC:
So skip through initial set up of the device when it first starts, to the home screen. Then hook it up?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
Yes, that all gets wiped anyways
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Spectredroid:
RockStar. Period.

This worked brilliantly. Just great. Love it. :D Appreciate the work from teamandirc for rooting this wicked phone, and of course dbzfanatic for making this so easy. I have rooted several devices, and I know this was bear for jcase, and all on the andirc team. Great stuff. It was much easier than the long way ( I have to t-bolts to play, so I tried both). I can't say enough how much of a benefit to the community you guys are. Also, as a side note, hopefully dbz is sleeping right now, but when he gets up I would just like to say thanks for the work you do, but for also being a cool dude. I know you were putting up with alot today, so thanks for being awesome. :cool:
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WhotahnHTC:
Ok one last question and I'll get out of noob phase of this ordeal....maybe.

I have HTC SYNC installed now and it jacked up my PDAnet for my Inc. Should it be installed at now or only if I have issues?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] racedog:
I finally got my TB rooted. I went back and read a number of posts and found some things that aren't mentioned in the first post. I am going to offer a few criticisms that I hope are taken in the positive vein in which I am giving them in order to help some of the less experienced android users here.

The first post needs to have some initial instructions on setting up the TB for the root process. The most obvious is that debugging needs to be enabled with a quick instruction on where to find that.

Rather than the 1 - 2 - 3 buttons with the instructions I think it would be better to put them in a single page with each being numbered so that the rooter knows what to expect from the next instruction.

On process #3 it should be noted that the entire process needs to be done, it may be obvious to some but some of us are more dense or just new to android (glances in mirror).

R
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
I actually never installed HTC SYNC. To test if you are ready run ADB and type adb devices. If your TB shows up, its all ready to begin. As mentioned earlier, connect as charge only, then switch to HTC SYNC (on phone). Also be sure you have debug mode enabled (i think it is by default).
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ripster:
For those who gotten step 3 to work how are you rebooting your phones? Power down, restart or just holding power button?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
you can type in the command line ' adb reboot ' and it will reboot your phone

For those that after all the reboots still cant get clockwork to bring up a superuser permissions you can either try doing step 3 on the rooter.exe program again, or going through the adb commands that were posted earlier. I just finished helping someone through the process on kinect video chat and we had to run the adb shell commands to get root accomplished. Pretty easy commands and you dont need to download the exploits.zip, all those files in the exploit are already in the folder you previously downloaded.

Find the folder that you dumped all the files into... hold shift and right click on it. Select open a command prompt window here, that is the window where you will type your adb commands.

type in adb devices... if it pops up showing your phone

phone type device

then you are good, if it says adb not found or something to that extent you are in the wrong directory.

But that is where you would go through those commands.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] uthinkisay:
Finally got it done. Step 3 was kind of tricky to get to work. For me I closed the rooter.exe rebooted my phone 2 times restarted rooter.exe click step 3 checked app drawer and bam su and rom manager appeared. rebooted 2 more times went into rom manager flashed clock work and my thunderbolt is ready to rock. Now all I need is CM7!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] uthinkisay:
power button and select restart
[Thunderbolt Android Development] vypurr:
BAM!! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1003008
[Thunderbolt Android Development] :
so confused. so many questions...

i dont know adb or have it so which file do i download?

Descriptions are a little vague, to me. YGA7K9GM or BQUA990B ?

where do i put the files?

once, i put the file in its designated place, what then?

do i unzip something? run something?

do i have to be in debug mode?

how long must one wait for files to be pushed?

(i tried earlier and the damn things was at Pushing Files for a good 30 minutes and nothing. had to kill it.)

thx in advance:D
[Thunderbolt Android Development] KZIWarrior:
Did this the other night and while there were a few hiccups (bad flashes) it worked and dbzfanatic was EXCELLENT in help me through the sticky spots. Anyone that uses this should make a donation (to either his charity or to him) it's because of people like this and their work that the Android (hacking) community has come so far so soon, lets keep it going!!!!

For anyone on the fence about rooting, it's WORTH IT!!!!!!!

Just being able to get rid of all the ridiculous bloat that VZW put on it makes a huge difference.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
so i extracted rooter to desktop plugged my phone in like it said, hope all goes well, but my ? is what is the file thunderboltroot.rar for?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Since you are new... FIRST READ THROUGH ALL 30 something pages of posts on this so you can see where people are having the most trouble and you can hopefully avoid it. Then reread the OP, after that... Here is the initial phone/file setup.

1.

If you dont have ADB installed ---------->>>>

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YGA7K9GM

mirrors:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/ca4d...rbolt_Root.rar

http://d01.megashares.com/dl/ecb4348/Thunderbolt Root.rar

You need to download ONE of the above files. Once it's finished downloading, EXTRACT ALL THE FILES into a folder on your C:\ drive or a folder on your desktop.

If you HAVE ADB INSTALLED -------------->

Download this file

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQUA990B

Once it's finished downloading, EXTRACT all the files into a folder on your C:\ drive or a folder on your desktop.

2. Enable USB Debugging On Your Phone

Step A

Launch the Settings app on your phone. This can be found in your App Drawer, or by Pressing the menu button on the outside of your device.

launch settings app or from settings button after you tap your menu button on the bottom of your screen.

Step B

Tap Applications.

Android Applications Settings

Step C

Tap Development.

Android Development Applications Settings

Step D

Check the box for USB debugging.*

Your phone should now be in Debug Mode, if you go into the notification bar you’ll find an Ongoing alert stating USB debugging connected. Remember how to do this, you will have to turn this on multiple times throughout this process.

3. Go to the folder you placed the extracted files to and click on the ' Rooter.exe ' File. Follow the instructions to a T that are posted in the OP.

***If you cant get your phone to be seen by the program. Try downloading the htcsync program and running it to install the drivers. You can find it on HTC's website or at this mirror. http://www.filefactory.com/file/ca4e6e5/n/setup_3.0.5511.exe . Then unplug (if you had it plugged in during installation) and plug back in your phone. It should say something about installing drivers, if that finishes okay then you are one step closer. :) If it doesnt work after installing sync, you may have to install PDANet but i dont know where you need to get that from or why it would have drivers that HTC's program wouldnt. I would just try restarting the computer after installing the htc sync first before i tried any other programs. You can also try plugging your phone into a different usb port.***
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Read my above post... Hopefully you downloaded the right 800+meg file. :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ballapimp1990:
im on step three where is the Rom manager
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
which one do should I have? That is a great post btw of how to. clear alot up thanks.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
If you have gone through and already pressed step 3. Rom manager should be located in your phones applications drawer.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NCX Designs:
I'm a bit confused by the screen its giving me:

Choose Bootloader option

Where?

am I supposed to send a ADB command to boot into Hboot?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
If you have never installed the adroid sdk before then you need the one with ADB, the first one.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
and by op u mean page one of this thread?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
the other thing is my thunderboltroot.rar is just a icon of a white page nothing to extract?? one the exe extracted to rooter.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NCX Designs:
Ok guys, I got Step 1 to work, but when i go into Hboot and do the update, it says:

Main version is older:

Update Fail!

:(
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
you are not waiting long enough. It is supposed to have 2 versions run.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
That is correct my friend. YOu probably already got this working by the time I responded.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ballapimp1990:
ok did everything said an error occured while attempting to run privileged command

basicly no superuser
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WhotahnHTC:
Ok just went through step 1 it loaded bootloader, took forever to flash now says power to reboot. Is that what I need to do? Then open up Rooter and step 2 then?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
OP means Opening Post

The thunderboltroot.rar has the rooter.exe in it if you have the correct vs. downloaded, they both have their own custom vs of rooter.exe. He included the other downloads for people that already had one large file downloaded and then realized they needed the other one. Then they could just download the correct exe file without having to redownload another 800 meg file. So forget the extra exe file there will already be one in the .rar file.

If you cant right click on it and go to open or extract then you need to download 7zip. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html install and then you can right click, slide down to 7zip then slide over to open archive. From there click on extract and move the folders as i said in my explanations post.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ddgarcia05:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1003088
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
You will reboot, skip google setup, turn on dev. Then hit step 2. CHECK THE HASH NUMBER BEFORE YOU HIT VOLUME UP TO UPDATE. Make sure it is the same as what is listed in the OP under known issues. Rooter should not shut down... you shouldnt have to reopen it before step 2.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] :
ok, here is where i am:

Choose the bootloader option and press POWER. Let the ROM flash. When asked to upgrade, choose yes (Press VOLUME UP). This will take a while and your device may reboot, allow it to happen. You will be presented with a screen saying you device is updating.

Now what? what bootloader option? its not on the pop window or on my phone screen...

thx in advance. sorry to be such a noob. but man the original instructions seem to missing some steps. ;)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Thanks for being around... thought i was the last non neewb on here. :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
restart your phone 3-4 times
[Thunderbolt Android Development] locust43:
Does this affect the radio's like LTE or data speed's? What is this image it flashed to my phone?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
you may receive an error message when you click step 2, wait a minute and click again.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ddgarcia05:
I kinda feel like a newb. I'm gonna try this 1 click root even though I know my way around ADB. There's just to many steps the long way. Granted I could just copy past the codes which cut down on the over all process.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
same version and retail launch. Just s off + rooted with bootloader
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Honestly, this process works great, but for the time it takes for people to get everything set up and then work through errors i think the ADB process works great. But this does work....
[Thunderbolt Android Development] WhotahnHTC:
I did as OP says and it shows correct hash. Then " flashing booting.nb0"

Phone has not went into bootloader...... nevermind. BOOM. OK flashing that. Then do I reboot. Come back to Rooter & run 3?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NCX Designs:
I keep getting the "Main Version older" Update Fail! error on the bootloader
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Uh.... :eek: i mean :confused: .... never seen that error. :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
Oh, and we need to know what step you are on. Doesn't tell us anything without a little more info. You could be trying to flash a theme for all i know.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ddgarcia05:
A hexeditor would fix it....or brick it. But lets not get into that. :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] TheMorlince:
I'm getting to bed. I'll check every so often on my phone for critical issues. Sorry but i have to get to work early tomorrow. Servers dont reboot themselves, well if they do it's usually not good. :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] NCX Designs:
I'm not that illiterate

After it goes to the screen on the Rooter.exe "Choose bootloader option"

I turn off the phone, hold down the volume down and power button to load Hboot, it scans and checks the file and shortly after it says "Main version older" Update fail
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tampoonx2:
download the other version of the download. BTW did you update your phone to 1.12.605.9? From the info that the OP put this will only work on 1.12.605.6 and hasnt been tested on the new rev thats floating around.

*Edit first post didnt have quote